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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Project Manager - IT - **Company:** Canal Barge Company, Inc. - **Location:** New Orleans, LA, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Microsoft Windows, Application Integration Architecture, Asana, JIRA, Information Systems, Custom Software, Data Migration, RAID, IT Management, Microsoft Project, Software Requirements Analysis, Systems Integration, Smartsheet, Enterprise Software Applications, Information Technology - **Published:** August 9, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=58ff94d1c7b00aa7 ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree in information systems, business, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience. * Three to six years managing IT projects with ownership of full delivery lifecycles, not task coordination alone. * Direct experience in at least two of: enterprise application implementation, system integration, data migration, or custom software development. * Proven ability to write clear requirements, plans, and status communications, and to manage third-party vendors against contracted commitments. * Working command of both traditional and iterative delivery approaches, with the judgment to apply the right one. * Proficiency with project and work management tooling (monday.com, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, or comparable) and Microsoft 365. * Preferred: PMP or equivalent certification; experience delivering during a merger or consolidation; business analysis training; background in marine transportation, logistics, or another asset-intensive industry; exposure to legacy application modernization and IT governance. ## Description The IT Project Manager plans and delivers technology projects across two operating companies, Canal Barge and Marquette Transportation, now aligned under common ownership. This role supports a multi-year integration effort involving migrations, integrations, and new implementations, while keeping modernization and custom development work moving in business lines outside the initial consolidation scope. This is a generalist role by design: most of the time is spent on delivery, with meaningful contribution to demand intake, requirements definition, and business partner engagement., A. Project and Program Delivery (initially 80%, future state approx. 60%) * Plan, schedule, and drive execution of system migrations, application integrations, platform implementations, and custom software development, including work accelerated by AI-assisted development. * Maintain project artifacts scaled to the size and risk of the work: charters, work plans, RAID logs, decision registers, and responsibility assignments. * Coordinate internal technical resources, business subject matter experts, and third-party vendors against committed scope and dates. * Manage scope, schedule, budget, and quality; escalate variances with a recommended course of action. * Own project communications and drive cutover planning, testing coordination, user readiness, and post-implementation stabilization. B. Portfolio Intake and Prioritization (initially 5%, future state approx. 20%) * Serve as an intake point for new technology requests, capturing enough definition to support informed sequencing. * Develop preliminary scope, effort, cost, and benefit views for prioritization discussions with IT and business leadership. * Maintain portfolio visibility across dependencies, resource contention, and capacity constraints. C. Business Analysis and Relationship Management (initially 15%, future state approx. 20%) * Facilitate requirements elicitation and document processes, functional and non-functional requirements, data needs, and acceptance criteria at a level developers and vendors can build against. * Build durable relationships with assigned business functions; represent IT credibly to them and their needs faithfully back to IT. ## Related Videos - [A Founder's Journey : From Startup Chaos to Purposeful Growth](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1926-a-founder-s-journey-from-startup-chaos-to-purposeful-growth) - [Improving quality with Agentic AI with Rovo Dev and Xray](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2005-improving-quality-with-agentic-ai-with-rovo-dev-and-xray) - [The user in the eye of the Cargo1492 storm](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/96-the-user-in-the-eye-of-the-cargo1492-storm) - [Collaboration Quantified: Lessons from Open Source Developer Networks](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1422-collaboration-quantified-lessons-from-open-source-developer-networks) - [Plan CI/CD on the Enterprise level!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/544-plan-ci-cd-on-the-enterprise-level) - [Integrate your Cognitive Assistant with 3rd-party DBs and software](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/249-integrate-your-cognitive-assistant-with-3rd-party-dbs-and-software) ## Related Articles - [From developer to manager – what does it take to become an engineering manager?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/42-from-developer-to-manager-what-does-it-take-to-become-an-engineering-manager) - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers) - [Should Tech Managers Be Developers First? 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